What’s supposed to be a once-a-decade event is about to happen for the third time in Georgia since 2020, and the results could shape state politics for years.
The Georgia Legislature is set to gavel in for a special legislative session Wednesday immediately on the heels of Tuesday’s runoff election, in part to redraw its boundaries for congressional and state legislative elections following a U.S. Supreme Court decision undoing a key part of the Voting Rights Act. The new boundaries are set to go into effect for the 2028 election.
Lawmakers previously met to redraw maps in 2021 following the 2020 census and again in 2023 after a federal judge ruled those maps violated the Voting Rights Act and ordered the state to create one congressional and seven legislative districts where Black residents make up the majority. The legal battle over the 2023 boundary lines is still pending in federal court.
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